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Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before ColumbusWhich came first–-the Polynesian chicken or the European?
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Secrets of Ancient Pompeii Households Revealed in RuinsResidents of Pompeii ate their meals on the run, just like many Americans do today, according to a new study.
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Amazing Maps Made by Founder of 1st U.S. SettlementThe famous founder of America's first settlement mapped the Chesapeake Bay with stunning accuracy, historians now say.
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Divers Discover Oldest Wooden AnchorShip sailed between Greece and Turkey in 7th century B.C.
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Mystery Solved: How Alexander the Great Defeated TyreAncient sandbar allowed him to build a causeway to the island.
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Mystery Surrounds Possible Oldest Church in North AmericaThe church may lie beneath a small town in Newfoundland. But a dead historian's notes were destroyed at her request, so no one is sure.
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Great Turtle Race Staged in PacificSlow and steady might win a race among 11 leatherback turtles engaged in a heated swim contest from Costa Rica to the Galápagos.
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Study Reveals Why We Get Distracted So EasilyDistractions are processed by the brain more quickly than things we try to concentrate on.
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Ancient Head-Squishing Violence RevealedAncient Peruvian aristocrats dismembered and disfigured their less well-off neighbors as a scare tactic, new archaeological finds suggest.
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Pig Journeys Reveal Human Migration PatternsPigs made the harrowing journey about 3,500 years ago to the most remote islands of the Pacific alongside their ancient human owners, and that partnership is revealing how the region was colonized.
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Headless Bodies Hold Secrets to Pacific MigrationAncient headless bodies discovered on the island of Vanuatu could help trace the colonization of the Pacific islands.
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Medieval Islamic Mosaics Used Modern MathThe swirling Arabesque ceramic tiles used in medieval Islamic mosaics and architecture were produced using geometry not understood in the West until the 1970s.
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Desperate New World Settlers Stole Christopher Columbus' SilverA desperate band of stragglers tried smelting silver they took from the explorer's royal cache, new findings suggest.
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Abe Lincoln Had Shattered Nerves, Study SuggestsHonest Abe might have suffered from a genetic disorder that literally shattered his nerves and would explain his gangly walk.
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Buried Babies Suggest Prehistoric CompassionInfants may have been considered equal members of society 27,000 years ago, contrary to the belief they were treated with indifference.
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Coffee to Maggots: Top 10 Bad Things That Are Good For Youmedicine-drugs -
10 Easy Paths to Self Destructionsleep -
Secret of Cold War Spy Messages RevealedThe invisible ink formula used by East German secret police to pass messages during the Cold War has remained classified, until now.
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New Theory on What Got the Oracle of Delphi HighA simple cocktail of gases could have induced the psychic trances that the Pythia used to channel the gods and dish out their advice.
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U.S. Population Nears 300 Million as Households ShrinkA baby born some time this October will be the 300-millionth American, but he or she shouldn’t expect a house full of siblings.
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Since Mendel: From Counting Peas to Fluorescent PigsThe father of genetics, a monk who spent eight years counting 300,000 peas, would not recognize some of the freaky things going on today.
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Tiny Island Was Violent Microcosm of World StrifeThe first settlers of Rapa island turned to violence when faced with the same pressures of environment and competition happening right now across the globe, a new study suggests.
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Urban Legends: How They Start and Why They PersistVOTE: We've collected some of the most persistent false tales around, now you can decide which is the most fantastic.
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The World's Longest-Running ExperimentsThe best experiments are conducted carefully and often slowly. Sometimes, they run well after the scientists who began them are long dead.
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